Yesterdays fish and few other trips out

After a big saturday night, woke up hung over and lacked motivation to do anything. But having cray pots that needed to be pulled there was no choice.  so loaded up my boat and headed out sunday morning (yesterday) and hit the water at around 10:30 am (very late). We went to a previous spot that had produced very well a couple of weeks before, but was holding no fish we could see on the sounder. We sounded around and decided to go pull the pots.

 

When the pots were dropped the week before, the boat I was on had the sounder fail half way out. So they were dropped completely blind and we didn't expect to catch anything. So we pulled the first two to find nothing. We then sounded around for a bit and found a nice looking lump. After dropping the pot right on it, The sounder lit up. I couldnt help myself and dropped a jig over the side while the pot was still sinking. After about 20 seconds I hooked on to a size dhu. We fished the lump for a while longer and ended up with another dhu, a big baldy, a swallowtail nannygai and some undersize dhuis, snapper and blackarse that released well.

 

After having a decent fish we pulled the other 2 pots. Ended with 3 male keepers and 8 females that were thrown back. We saw plenty of bait fish schooling in the sound, had a bit of a troll but no hits.

 

I'm still fairly new to jigging but am slowly converting. My friends were using bait.




 

 

 

This was the week before going out on a mates boat, lost some decent fish that day but managed a size dhui

 

Then pulled these a couple of weeks ago of a nice lump on my boat with cruggs1


 

 

Then this pic of crabs in the swan on friday night. Ended up with 16




 

 

 

 


crasny1's picture

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Nice hauls mate

Mon, 2013-03-11 16:28

341 Reads and no comments. I would be happy with those catches.

Neels

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flexn's picture

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thanks mate, were good fun

Mon, 2013-03-11 19:47

thanks mate, were good fun

opsrey's picture

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Just shows the early bird might catch naught.

Mon, 2013-03-11 19:56

 Glad to hear your mixing the night life with some sport fishing. Good post n pics.

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 gotta be happy with them

Tue, 2013-03-12 09:55

 gotta be happy with them results. well done, at least you got out there and grabbed a feed despite the hangover

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